Below are a few excerpts from a recent ViaSatellite article, ThinKom Looks to Replace Dish Farms (8/15/19), and Q&A with ThinKom CTO Bill Milroy:

ThinKom is offering a way for people to replace big, expensive dish farms. The company recently revealed its new Multi-Beam Phased-Array Gateway solution, which is described as an “array of arrays” — and provides an alternative to the large ‘antenna farms’ of parabolic dishes currently used for support of Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites.

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In advance of the announcement, Via Satellite sat down with Milroy last month to chat about the latest developments in the antenna segment.

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Milroy: ‘Rather than [smaller] or [higher-performing] per se, the antenna challenge is, and always has been, to get the highest possible performance (highest possible data throughput utilizing a given satellite/constellation resource) in the smallest possible footprint (antenna area).’

Read the full article and interview at ViaSatellite.